How We Rate These Games
Every score on Funthrum is a single editor's opinion, not a lab result — and it's worth being upfront about exactly what that means before you read one.
Who does the rating
Every review, score, and comparison table on this site is written by one person — Félix Lavoie — based on hands-on time with the actual game on Google Play. There's no editorial panel averaging opinions and no outsourced review farm; that's a deliberate choice for a small site like this one, but it also means every score carries the bias of a single player's taste, which is worth remembering as you read.
What we actually look at
Four things go into every score, in roughly the same order every time: how easy the game is to get into without reading instructions, how well the pacing holds up across a session rather than just the first few minutes, how much genuine variety the level or shift catalogue offers, and whether the core loop still felt worth returning to after multiple sessions rather than just the first one.
Games don't lose points for being simple — Sweets Match scores respectably despite doing very little beyond the basics — but they do lose points for pacing that drags or a loop that runs out of ideas early.
What the number does and doesn't mean
A score out of ten is a summary, not a guarantee. It reflects how one editor's several sessions with a game went, not hundreds of hours of testing and not a promise about how you personally will feel about it. Two games a point apart on our scale can be a genuinely close call; read the pros, cons, and full review text for the reasoning behind any number, not just the digit itself.
Where the facts come from
Developer names, star ratings, and last-updated dates shown on every review are pulled directly from that game's own Google Play listing at the time of writing, for the Canadian, English-language version of the store. We don't estimate or round in ways that would misrepresent what Google Play itself shows; if a listing changes after we publish, the review may lag behind until we revisit it.
Getting something wrong
Ratings, developer credits, and game details on Google Play change over time, and a one-person site can't catch every update immediately. If anything here looks out of date or incorrect, the contact page is the quickest way to flag it, and corrections get made directly in the affected review rather than left standing.